Chapter 160: The Battle of the Game
After Zhou Fen walked out of the interview room, she was still in a state of confusion, was the glasses woman evil? Why is attitude changing so quickly?
"Sister Zhou, how's it going?" Niu Lili hurriedly stepped forward and asked.
"I ...... I was accepted. “
"Great, we'll be colleagues in the future."
Zhou Fen touched his nose and said with a smile: "Go." I'll ask you to. “
In the interview room, the woman with glasses breathed a sigh of relief, she was sweating all over, "I almost lost my job today." “
The male interviewer said faintly: "In the future interview, you have to ask about the family relationship, otherwise you will offend no one." “
"Hmm. yes. Whew, it's a false alarm. “
Mortal Technology Group.
Lin Bufan was holding a meeting with the high-level.
The game "World of Legends" has a surprisingly good effect from the closed beta, the internal beta to the open beta.
The closed beta means that the game production has just been completed, and the game needs to be tested technically, and the test at this stage is purely technical, and the story, plot, and character design of the game have nothing to do with it, and the whole game is basically in the embryonic stage, so except for the relevant technical personnel, no one else can contact the game.
The closed beta is the longest of the three stages of testing, as little as a few weeks, as many as months, this stage of testing is crucial, and it is also the most comprehensive test of the game, all the technical issues about the game, as well as about the game's story, character, style, characters, costumes, language, action, the rationality of the main and side quests, and many other aspects of testing and evaluation, and even the final modification. Even in the closed beta, there are very few people who can participate, most of them are game production personnel, operating agents and merchants who produce and operate games, and some ordinary players.
When it comes to the open beta stage, a considerable number of players will participate, and at this time, the game has been basically finalized. That is, the test is in the final stage of the official launch. In fact, it is to listen to the opinions and feedback of players, so as to make statistics and preparations for correcting errors in the future, and the way to correct errors is generally in the form of patches.
"World of Legends has been online for a month. The number of registered players has reached as many as 150,000, and the current statistics show that the number of paying players is approaching 50,000......" Yang Qiuyu reported with the data sheet.
These are all in Lin Bufan's prediction, the reason why the legend game will be popular, the most important point is that it is in line with Chinese culture, the characters in it, including the setting of NPCs, are close to Chinese culture, NPC is a fixed character in the game, and it is a character made by the game designer to guide players.
For example, shopkeepers, such as archers at various city gates.
According to the development of the previous life, after one year, the number of players of the legendary game will reach 500,000, and the number will be 3 million in another year.
"Well, you're all doing a great job, our goal is to make this game the most profitable game in China, are you confident?" Lin Bufan asked.
And they said yes.
After that, Lin Bufan deployed various matters. Set up branches in various provinces and cities, and increase the cooperation of agents, and quickly let the legendary game occupy the market.
When the game "World of Legends" had not yet been introduced, there were two games that occupied the top position in the domestic list, one was called "The Land of Wind" and the other was called "Cyber Genesis".
Both games are produced by Nine Cities.
At that time, the largest game company in China was Jiucheng Game Company.
This company can be said to be the first to set foot in Huaxia games.
The owner of Jiucheng Company is called Fang Ping, who worked as a game developer in a game company in Sakura Country in the 80s, and then returned to China to introduce these two to China.
At that time, domestic players played single-player games, such as Tycoon, Need for Speed, and later the classic "StarCraft", "World of Warcraft", "Crossfire" and so on.
Fang Ping introduced these two foreign online games in 96 years, which immediately caused a sensation, and from our current point of view, to play these two games, I must have felt that there was nothing awesome, but it did cause a trend at that time.
It's like putting a car in the early Qing Dynasty, and gamers open the window of the new century. Games are also slowly moving from the era when standalone was king to online games.
According to the history of the game development in the previous life, Fang Ping's Nine Cities Company will go bankrupt in 2002, this is mainly because Fang Ping missed the two games of "Stone Age" and "Miracle", the development of the game is very fast, only the phenomenal legend still exists, and other games will be eliminated after a period.
But in any case, Fang Ping was the first person to introduce online games.
Nine Cities Games Company in Sioux City, Gangneung Province.
Nine Cities Office.
Fang Ping is listening to the market situation this month.
The head of the marketing department said about the legendary game.
"Mr. Fang, a game called "Legendary World" appeared in November, and the number of paying players exceeded 50,000 in the first month of its launch, which had a big impact on our game."
Fang Ping asked, "Which game company developed it?" “
"It was developed by the Stick Country CH Company and introduced by the Mortal Technology Network Company."
At that time, the mainstream games were all in the United States, so Fang Ping said with a contemptuous smile: "Exceed 50,000 paying players a month." Is this possible? It's obviously fake, and it's just a good game that the people of the stick country can design, and it's just grandstanding. Don't care. “
The head of the marketing department had an ugly face, and he wanted to continue, but he still didn't.
A week passed in the blink of an eye.
When the meeting was held again, the director of the marketing department couldn't sit still, "Mr. Fang, the game Legend has exceeded 70,000 paying players this week. There is a tendency to dominate. If I don't think about the countermeasures, I'm afraid that it will have a fatal impact on our two games. “
After listening to the report, Fang Ping was also a little uncontrollable, "More than 20,000 paid users in a week? “
"Yes!"
After Fang Ping finished the meeting, he registered a legendary account and played for a few hours.
After playing. He didn't speak for a long time, he was a game developer himself, so he naturally knew how powerful this game was.
"Is Mortal Tech a new company?" Fang Ping asked.
"According to the available information, it is a company that has been registered for two months. The general manager's name is Yang Qiuyu, and he is a non-game person. The head of marketing said.
Fang Ping thought for a moment and said: "It's just a small company, and it's not listed, how can it compare with our Nine Cities, so let's do it, you send a letter to Mortal Technology, just say that I want to buy their company, and let them come to Suzhou City to talk about the acquisition." “
At that time, Fang Ping was a big man in the game industry, and he also developed a hegemonic attitude. Several small companies have also been acquired over the years.
Making games requires technical and financial support.
As a listed company, Jiucheng has this strength.
But what Fang Ping didn't know was that Lin Bufan was not short of money. He has made billions in the stock market during this time, and with the money from the sale of treasures, he already has 5 billion funds. Because it is a non-listed company, the outside world does not know how much capital Mortal Technology has.
In the afternoon, the fax letter arrived at Mortal Technology.
Soon the letter was placed on Yang Qiuyu's desk. He took a look at it and called Lin Bufan.
Lin Bufan went directly to the company from school.
Inside the office.
After Lin Bufan read this letter, he laughed: "Fang Ping, Fang Ping, you are so loud, you actually want to buy my company." “
Yang Qiuyu said with some concern: "Extraordinary, Fang Ping's Jiucheng Game Company is the largest game company in China. “
"The game is changing with each passing day, and Fang Ping will go bankrupt in a few years because he thinks very highly of himself and sees everything."
"Bankruptcy in a few years?" Yang Qiuyu was shocked, in his opinion, Jiucheng is a very strong game company.
"Well, if you don't want to forge ahead, you will naturally go out of business, and the game "World of Legends" will slowly decline after 5 or 6 years of launch, which is the inevitability of the market, just like between men and women, just get along and want to stick together every day, after a few years of marriage, the left hand holds the right hand, and there is no feeling, no matter how classic a game is, there will be a greasy time."
A few words made Yang Qiuyu feel empowered.
"You go and send a receipt, and just say that let him make a price, and we mortal technology can buy his Nine Cities Game."
There are many players in the Nine Cities game, and if it comes to Lin Bufan, it will not go bankrupt.
At that time, the market value of Nine Cities Games was 1.5 billion.
Lin Bufan had the money to buy Nine Cities Games.
Soon the receipt arrived at Nine Cities Games.
The director of the marketing department took the receipt and entered Fang Ping's office.
After Fang Ping read the content of the receipt, he scolded angrily: "A small company dares to shout for the acquisition of my Jiucheng, what a big breath." Book me a plane ticket, I will meet this self-defeating Yang Qiuyu. “